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I recently noticed that spamassassin has been letting a LOT more mail through than it had before. The downside to running my own server for so long is that sometimes I have a “set it and forget it” attitude.. and frankly, tinkering with mailserver settings hasn’t been high on my list. But, I was tired of getting hit so often, …

Synergy is a fantastic software KVM option for those of us with multiple computers/screens at our desk that want to maintain a single set of input devices (mouse/keyboard). No need for me to go into all of the details here (I mean, you can read, right?) but sufficed to say, you run the software on each machine (Linux/Mac/Win options available), …

As the avid reader knows, I am a fan of XBMC. So much so that I have it setup on every TV in the house, which means I also have a centralized mysql database to keep them all in synch. That part works great, and everything is going well. My problem is that I am lazy about deleting stuff I’ve …

So you’re sitting around, trying to get rid of some ridiculously old legacy hardware (and the oooold OS that’s on it) that you cannot find time/resources to upgrade. You think, “Oh I know, I’ll just virt it and deal with it later!”. Pretty reasonable, you’re a goddamned genius. So you install a copy of vmware converter and get to it. …

This weekend I had some fun with the SiriProxy project. It is a neat little hack that allows you to intercept Siri commands on your iphone and handle them locally when applicable. The github project does a great job of helping you get up and running, but chances are there will be a few steps that are slightly off and …

I was recently faced with getting an installation of kaltura video server running on a fully up to date CentOS 5.5 server. This sounded like a normal/easy LAMP install that I expected to have online with an hour or so, but it proved to be more difficult due to the requirements of the software. When I ran the install script, …